Kimmel on Trump: ‘How much garbage are his followers supposed to swallow?’

Late-night hosts touched upon Kamala Harris’s treatment during an interview on Fox News and were baffled by Donald Trump’s inability to answer a question during a town hall with undecided Latino voters.

Jimmy Kimmel

On Jimmy Kimmel Live!, the host told viewers they were “18 days from the election and 95 days from our next insurrection” and that Trump continues to boast a great deal of support for “reasons I can’t begin to fathom”.

He said that the former president has a “commanding lead in the annoying emails department” with the New York Times reporting that since he entered the race in November 2022, his campaign has sent 7,400 emails asking for money.

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Kimmel said that Trump was “all over the place right now both literally and figuratively” with many appearances on carefully picked male podcasts. “None of these guys spend a minute pushing back on his nonsense,” the host complained.

He also appeared at a Univision town hall in Miami for undecided Latino voters who “for once put this nutjob on the spot”.

Kimmel played his rambling answers as proof that the same things Republicans claimed were happening to Joe Biden with increased age were “clearly happening to Donald Trump”.

He added: “How much garbage are his followers supposed to swallow?”

When asked about climate change, Trump bragged about the many environmental awards he has received. “Let’s see those awards,” Kimmel said.

The host moved on to reports that Trump’s campaign tried to offer a second hush-money payment to Stormy Daniels over the summer. He said that is “a lot of money to pay a person you didn’t have sex with to not tell people you didn’t have sex with”.

Kimmel joked that Melania Trump now “hates him more than she hates Christmas”.

Stephen Colbert

On The Late Show, Stephen Colbert said that when it comes to the US, we are “rapidly approaching what could be its series finale”.

He spoke of Harris’s interview with Bret Baier on Fox News, saying she “entered the belly of the beast and then cut her way out with a rusty spoon”.

Colbert said that Baier performs for “an audience of one” given previous allegations of him trying to suppress election results that could offend Trump.

Baier asked Harris about her complaints over Trump threatening to use the military against American citizens, yet played a carefully edited clip that didn’t show what he really said. “Maybe he couldn’t see the clips because his eyes are two dehydrated blueberries,” Colbert said.

He added: “It’s like if you only watch the first 10 minutes of Jurassic Park, you’d think that place looks like a lot of fun.”

Baier also tried to “trap Harris with the stupidest gotcha this side of the Rio Grande” asking her why Trump has so much support if he is as bad as she says he is, asking her if she thinks his followers are stupid.

“No they’re not stupid Bret, they’ve just been watching your network and you feed them lies,” Colbert said.